Tuesday’s protest of public transport employees launched Slugfest between the main Minister Siddaramaiah and the leader of the opposition (LOP) R. Ashok, the other accused of the former situation.
The main minister started the counterattack and accused Mr. Ashok, who previously processed the transport portfolio in the former BJP government for solving the problems of transport workers.
It all began with Mr. Ashok accused the “wrong” minister and “financial bankruptcy” of the state as reasons for transport workers who go to strike and demand the resignation of the main minister. “Save Karnataka and let Kannadigase live in peace by buying resignation to your post,” Mr. Ashok said in a social media post.
This main minister shot and said that when Mr. Ashok was Minister of Transport, that the staff of transport passed for a 15 -day strike because they were not fully paid their salaries.
Unlike the government of Congress, which has increased salaries with a retrospective effect, the former BJP government resorted to the future revision for them, he said.
He also claimed that recruitment of employees and the purchase of new buses was stopped during the BJP rule, while the financial burden of 5,900 GBP Crore towards various expenditures, including the waiting diesel accounts, was transferred to another government.
However, the congress, which came to power, named 10,000 employees and included 5,200 new buses in the fleet, he said. He claimed that BJP borrowed 2,000 GBP Crore to pay for diesel accounts and interim fund of employees, but left the loan to the Congress Government.
Mr. Siddaramaiah urged Mr. Ashok to remember the “injustice” of the BJP dispensing to the transport of workers before heading the accusing finger at the congress government.
Published – 5th August 2025 20:58
